Track page/subpage views?

[Owari_Jules]

Hey there Coda magicians! I’m wondering if there’s a way or workaround that would allow me to track the people that viewed a page or subpage in Coda?

It doesn’t look like this is possible out of the box, but I was wondering if there’s anyway to make a formula where just visiting a page logs your User() to a table of some sort?

[Scott_Collier-Weir]

Hey there!

Another user asked a similar question, and unfortunately there is not a simple solution to this at the moment that I’m writing this. You would have to use some sort of workaround (which is definitely possible, but has some drawbacks)

I gave some more info about it in this thread:

CRM: Tracking doc usage

Hey Charlie, I agree this is a much-needed feature. As a workaround, you could create yourself a similar dashboard - but you would need to implement one button. You could add a single page with a “login” button that essentially Adds a row to a double column table (User column, and timestamp column) Then have filters throughout your doc and on all tables that don’t allow users to see any information unless there exists a row in the above mentioned table that has a timestamp within the last …

[Marco_Orellana]

Just to add – tracking metrics of the document itself like google sheets and docs is critical. Often times documents are a great way to track internal metrics within the organization such as internal demand or interest in something your team is beginning to explore.